[swift-evolution] Enhancing access levels without breaking changes

[Matthew Johnson]

> On Apr 10, 2017, at 10:26 AM, Tino Heth via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
>> I’m not sure that this solves anything meaningful (whether in relation to SE-0169 or more generally), does it? What advantage does this provide over just declaring the protocol conformance and those methods as a direct part of the parent type? This seems like it would just introduce more indentation, and more lines of code, for zero benefit.
> Well, I'm not overwhelmingly convinced of this whole "we put same-module stuff into extensions" anyways, so it's debatable wether proposals like SE-0169 have any meaningful effects at all… do you think that conformances in same-file extensions have a real benefit? 

I think the primary benefit is organizational.  People like having the members that implement a conformance grouped together with the conformance declaration.

> 
> If nothing else, nested extensions could save those who actually don't care much about such issues from another breaking change in Swift — and imho it adds consistency:
> We can nest types, so why can't we nest extensions?
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